(04-29-2022, 12:17 PM)tckosvic Wrote:

(04-29-2022, 10:34 AM)Borealid Wrote: If I were you, I'd use the SD card. You can replace the SD without needing to get a new phone, so why would you want to write flash and shorten the device lifetime? With a good SD the speed doesn't make a significant difference in responsiveness of the phone interface, and what you're using comes from RAM either way.

The MicroSD card slot in the PPP is not positioned in a way that you can readily remove a card while the phone is powered on, so practically speaking the card lives in the phone long term.

You're welcome to do what you want with your device, but I don't think "most phones work this other way" is a good argument for why it should be that way. Most modern high-end phones don't even HAVE removable storage - likely because selling more internal flash is an easy way to get customers to pay as much as they are able for devices (aka perfect price discrimination).

You can find the settings for the bootloader in /boot.

My PPP is borked right now because my sim/sd card holder needs to be replaced that I think is due to excessive uses, i.e., insert/remove sd card.   I can't get a replacement sim/sd holder part as i have posted several times on hardware forum.  Doesn't read my sim card so no calls.  Used to read sim, call and get both sms and mms messages until it stopped.  My sim card is good because it works in PP phone fine.  I can start PPP phone from sd but can't make calls so I have no use for it.  I must have changed sd card a hundred times testing various OS/desktop combinations until sim/sd holder doesn't work anymore.

I was really into this effort.  But now i am getting burned out.  Posted 125 messages here over last few mionths.

Do you get mms messages with arch/sxmo?  I hadn't heard of sxmo before but I'll look into it.

(04-29-2022, 06:57 PM)Borealid Wrote: Sorry your SD card slot is broken. As a tip for the future, you don't have to remove the SD card from the phone to write it.

If you want you should be able to put the phone bootloader into USB Mass Storage mode. See the bottom of https://tow-boot.org/devices/pine64-pinephonePro.html - if you have tow-boot on your SPI flash, holding volume up will make the LED turn "blue" instead of "aqua".

You should then be able to use the directions in Step 3 to install directly to flash.

I have no idea if MMS works. Plain SMS does. If your SIM slot is broken you're not going to be using either with the phone's built-in modem.

(05-05-2022, 01:30 PM)cj-mcquack Wrote: Yes, there are currently no drivers for either camera on the PPP.

Slightly OT but I have not sent or received an MMS in years, what use case do y'all have?

(05-05-2022, 04:03 PM)Dragonborn Wrote:

(05-05-2022, 01:30 PM)cj-mcquack Wrote: Yes, there are currently no drivers for either camera on the PPP.

Slightly OT but I have not sent or received an MMS in years, what use case do y'all have?

I think after a certain number of MMS messages the modem gets full and they get clogged. When I had my sim in my PPP it stopped sending me MMS after a while, but I never diagnosed the official cause.

(05-06-2022, 04:42 AM)wibble Wrote:

(05-05-2022, 04:03 PM)Dragonborn Wrote:

(05-05-2022, 01:30 PM)cj-mcquack Wrote: Yes, there are currently no drivers for either camera on the PPP.

Slightly OT but I have not sent or received an MMS in years, what use case do y'all have?

I think after a certain number of MMS messages the modem gets full and they get clogged. When I had my sim in my PPP it stopped sending me MMS after a while, but I never diagnosed the official cause.

Only if you don't have an application that deals with the messages and removes them. The same applies to SMS by the way, but as there was an app to handle SMS from the start nobody talks about it.